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"The Cost of Deaf Ears" The world don’t wait for stubborn minds, It spins with speed and shifting signs. You clutch your pride like armor worn, While futures pass—reborn, reborn. You scoff at change, you flinch at truth, Still preaching dreams you lost in youth. But silence speaks, and wisdom waits Beyond the walls you fabricate. Close your mouth—open your soul, The world’s a fire, not a scroll. You read the past with hardened eyes, While blind to present’s clear disguise. They watch you—those with open hearts, Seeking guidance, seeking starts. But you, a lighthouse with no flame, Let shadows play the ancient game. See, fate is fickle—make no mistake, She gives, she bends, then she can break. She’ll whisper once, then walk away And let you rot in yesterday. So hush your ego, plan with grace, Embrace the shift, reclaim your place. For those who fight the tides of change Will drown in depths they called "unchanged."
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The Cost of Deaf Ears
The world don’t wait for stubborn minds, It spins with speed and shifting signs. You clutch your pride like armor worn, While futures pass—reborn, reborn. You scoff at change, you flinch at truth, Still preaching dreams you lost in youth. But silence speaks, and wisdom waits Beyond the walls you fabricate. Close your mouth—open your soul, The world’s a fire, not a scroll. You read the past with hardened eyes, While blind to present’s clear disguise. They watch you—those with open hearts, Seeking guidance, seeking starts. But you, a lighthouse with no flame, Let shadows play the ancient game. See, fate is fickle—make no mistake, She gives, she bends, then she can break. She’ll whisper once, then walk away And let you rot in yesterday. So hush your ego, plan with grace, Embrace the shift, reclaim your place. For those who fight the tides of change Will drown in depths they called "unchanged."
Upstream Logic
They say salmon swim upstream against bone-breaking current, muscle screaming, purpose louder than pain. No applause. No audience. Just instinct dressed up as destiny. She dies when the work is done— never meets her children, never questions the river, never asks who decided this direction? And we call that nature. But here’s the glitch in the system— humans weren’t coded like fish. We were born unfinished. Upgradeable. Dangerous. Free will wasn’t a gift— it was a risk. So they centralized learning. Standardized truth. Put God on a schedule and freedom behind a desk. Church said: follow. State said: comply. Corporations said: produce. And suddenly choice came with a price tag most people couldn’t afford. They trained us to swim upstream toward money, toward titles, toward borrowed dreams— then blamed us for drowning. See, the salmon never questions death because death is part of the program. But humans? We trade eternity for a paycheck and call it maturity. Here’s the part they don’t teach: If a salmon ever turned around— ever rode the river instead of fighting it— she wouldn’t be a failure. She’d be a myth. And that’s why they hate deviation. Because one thinking individual infects the water with possibility. “All for One” is control. One story. One ladder. One acceptable life. But “One for All”? That’s dangerous. That means I master me so thoroughly that my freedom becomes your permission. I’m not here to swim where you point. I’m here to ask who built the dam and who profits from exhaustion. I don’t want instinct in a suit. I want consciousness in motion. Because the real tragedy isn’t dying after purpose— it’s living and never choosing it.
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Writer of truth. Philosopher of the soul. I turn experience into story and questions into light.

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